National security concerns in the US might add a potent tailwind to Qualcomm's purported buyout offer for Intel.
  • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    I don’t recall Qualcomm trying to buy ARM. That was Nvidia. (though, yes, it likely would also have been prevented if it had tried)

    But they’d probably have a better (but still slim) chance of getting a purchase of Intel through. That’d be a more horizontal acquisition than a vertical one as Qualcomm doesn’t make x86 chips so they can at least argue it wouldn’t be anti-competitive.

    • GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      I don’t recall Qualcomm trying to buy ARM.

      Thanks for correcting me.

      That’d be a more horizontal acquisition than a vertical one as Qualcomm doesn’t make x86 chips so they can at least argue it wouldn’t be anti-competitive.

      Not sure if AMD and Nvidia, will see it that way, and they will probably lobby to stop the deal.